Avery Poindexter never expected to take another chance at love…actually,
she had planned on remaining invisible for the rest of her life.

Growing up in a family that would put Cinderella’s to shame, Avery
Poindexter watched as her sister withstood years of abuse while she was
sidelined to the staff quarters unable to fight for her own.

However, she had a plan…

On her eighteenth birthday, with the signed paperwork from her malicious
grandmother, Avery and her sister make their escape and never look back,
but Avery should have guessed that her change in luck was too good to be
true.

Banishing herself to a life of loneliness and solitude, Avery jumps at the
chance to start over somewhere new: Carson, North Carolina. As Avery
adjusts to a new beginning and a new life, she’s thrown a curve ball she
wasn’t expecting – him – a man that has his own secrets and demons shrouded
in the darkness of his past. He also happens to be one of her bosses and
Avery finds herself drawn to him in a way she never anticipated, torn
between wanting to wrap him in her arms and push him away in hopes to save
his life.

Logan doesn’t trust women. Period. They play on your emotional
vulnerability and use you if they can. They chew you up and spit you out.
He should know; his family has a long history of lying, cheating,
manipulating, and leaving women.

Growing up in a trailer park, kicking post to his dad’s vicious temper,
Logan made a vow to make something of himself. Determination and
scholarships got him through medical school; women got him through lonely
nights.

A one-night stand cut short exposes Logan to a mysterious woman that flips
his world upside down. Logan never expected to meet her; the one that would
make him question everything. Undeterred by her need to keep him at an
arm’s length, he goes against everything he believes in the quest to prove
that they’re worth fighting for.

Will Logan be able to breathe life back into Avery’s heart and offer her
the things she craves…family? Love? Or will their devastating pasts force
them apart?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Renee Harless is the author of the erotic/BDSM series The Stone Series and
the soon-to-be released contemporary/erotic Welcome to Carson Series.